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And thanks to the repeated hints about blind dates, there would be all kinds of expectations about the two of us once we got there for the wedding.
Then again, maybe if I met him and there was no interest between us, that could get Gabby off my back about it!
The future looked suddenly promising.
“When is he leaving?” I asked.
“In a few days, I think. He can’t come until the rehearsal dinner. Why? Are you—Are you thinking of going with him?”
Shuffling sounds arrived outside my door, and then a knock followed. “That’s Addie. I’ll call you back, okay?”
I couldn’t make this decision lightly and certainly not without talking to her about it. As a fellow bridesmaid, she was my partner in crime.
“Okay,” Gabby said, sounding uncertain before I ended the call. “But you’d better call me back.”
“I will.”
I sprang from the couch and hurried to answer the door.
Adelie smiled softly. She was blonde, petite, and extremely pretty, with green eyes and beautiful skin that always made me a little jealous. I’d called her Addie since we were kids.
“Ready to go,” she said, strolling in wearing a t-shirt with a big red truck on the front and jeans.
Addie hadn’t been sure about meeting Gabby in the first place. She was as shy as they came. But once I started chatting with Gabby and grew to like her as instantly as I did, Addie opened up to her, too. Her sister, Suzie, had plans this weekend with her boyfriend and wouldn’t be able to come. So, it was just Addie and me.
Her suitcase was probably still out in her car. She and I had already made plans for a three-day road trip. Would she be upset if I suggested we wait and go in a few days on a jet plane with a hot stranger?
I guess I’d have to ask her.
“Hey,” I said, clapping my hands and glancing around my too-messy apartment. Clothes, newspapers, last year’s Christmas cards dangling on the mantel, a basketful of who knew what.
I cleaned for a living. The last thing I wanted to do was come home and clean some more.
My roommate was good with it—I figured everyone else could be, too.
“What would you say about a change of plans?”
Addie’s brow crinkled. “What do you mean? Are you not going anymore? If you don’t go, I won’t either.”
“No, that’s not it.” I held out my hands to placate her and tried to think of how to phrase this. “It’s just—you know how Gabby and Adrian have been trying to set me up with their rich friend?”
“The one who owns Ever After Sweets?”
Cringe.
“Yeah, him.”
All the reasons I didn’t want to do this sprang forward all over again, but the appeal of a trip lasting a few hours rather than several days—and saving money on said trip—was too good to turn down.
“He’s Adrian’s best friend, and it turns out he’s flying out for the wedding, too. Gabby said if we wanted, we could catch a ride. For, you know, free.”
“Are you kidding?”
Addie’s expression improved. Her smile spread, emphasizing the light in her eyes as well as her sheer likeability. She wasn’t just sweet—she was easy to getalong with.
“A free flight to Montana? Are you sure we don’t have to pay anything?”
Gabby wouldn’t have said it otherwise. Because billionaires.
